19-06-2017 02:34 via kxan.com

Navy identifies 7 victims from USS Fitzgerald; 1 from Weslaco, Texas

YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Navy ship collision off the Japanese coast (all times local):
8:45 a.m.
The U.S. Navy has identified the seven sailors who died in a collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship off Japan on Saturday.
They are:
— Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Noe Hernandez, 26, from Weslaco, Texas
— Gunner’s Mate Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, from Palmyra, Virginia
— Yeoman 3rd Class Shingo Alexander Douglass, 25, from San
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